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Surname: Pauer |
Given Name: Francisco Xavier |
Sex: M |
Place of Birth: Brno, Moravia |
Date of Birth: 01/06/1721 |
Order: Jesuit |
Place of Death: Cádiz |
Date of Death: 01/06/1770 |
Cause of Death: Rigor of expulson & imprisonment at Cadiz |
Race or Tribe: Tudesco |
Residence: Guevavi |
Title: Misionero (IHS); Shipped out of the Port of Guaymas on the Príncipe during the Jesuit Expulsion; Shipped out of Veracruz on the Princesa Ulrrica |
Place of Service: Guevavi; Suamca; San Ignacio |
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Translation: (German) |
Notes: Not well proportioned; clear, swarthy skin, thick nose, brown hair. Studied twelve years at the college of Olomouc near Brno. Left Cadiz 16 January 1750 for Mexico. Left Mexico City for Bac in the fall of 1750. He had only been there a few months when the Pima Rebellion errupted and he ran for his life. He came to Guevavi in 1753. Professed his final vows at Arizpe on 2 February 1755. He was in San Ignacio in Januray 1760. He built churches at Tumacácori, and Sonoitac. He left Guevavi more prosperous than he had found it. He labored at its reconstruction for six years. He was well versed in frontier medicine. |